Don't Look If You Have a weak Stomach : New York City’s Gay Pride 2011

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Traditionally, the last Sunday in June is reserved for Gay Pride in New York City. This year, there was a major reason to celebrate. On Friday night, New York State legislators voted to legalize same-sex marriage, allowing New York to become the sixth and largest state to pass such legislation. The news sent thousands of happy revelers into the streets throughout the weekend.

On Sunday, crowds once again returned to the streets of New York City for the 2011 Gay Pride Parade. With the marriage vote to celebrate, an aura of renewed vigor led the day’s festivities.

New York City based photographer Edward Keating photographed the weekend events for TIME. Documenting both the colorful (and flamboyant) parade and the partying afterward, Keating spent hours in the excited crowds and in packed bars and restaurants in the West Village.

Will they still hold these parades when they get everything they want?

They will never get everything that they want, because they will never be satisfied with a lifestyle that glorifies the transient and disdains the permanent, and demands that we accept and glorify the cravings of a marginal group.

I think we should just have a stereotypes parade in general. We could just combine the queers with these guys and knock 'em all out at once.

I feel that once a black fella has referred to white foks as "honky paleface devil white-trash cracker redneck Caspers," he's abdicated the right to get upset about the "N" word. But that's just me. -- Jim Goad